Keith_W
Master Contributor
^^^ Here in Australia, wars are infrequent. So if a patient tells me he's a vet, it usually means he provides medical treatment for animals. All that went out the window when I met an American patient who told me he's a vet. I asked "do you work with pets or farm animals?". He looked confused, then told me "I'm an Iraq vet". That's when it hit me that I might have insulted him. I apologized profusely.